Marc Edge
@marcedge.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Communication at University Canada West and columnist for Canadian Dimension. Author of eight books, including The Postmedia Effect (2023) and Tomorrow's News: How to Fix Canada's Media (2024). Find me at www.marcedge.com.
In Postmedia Newspapers, HRC Argues Long-Term Peace Between Palestinians & Israelis Will Never Be Achieved Until Hamas Is Defeated
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In Postmedia Newspapers, HRC Argues Long-Term Peace Between Palestinians & Israelis Will Never Be Achieved Until Hamas Is Defeated
Nearly two years have passed since the October 7, 2023, attacks in southern Israel, when scores of innocent Israelis were maimed, raped, tortured, more than 1,200 brutally murdered, and over 250 kidna...
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August 30, 2025 at 5:13 AM
In Postmedia Newspapers, HRC Argues Long-Term Peace Between Palestinians & Israelis Will Never Be Achieved Until Hamas Is Defeated
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she solicited the comment with her post . . . now she has courageously blocked me from responding
August 7, 2025 at 4:22 AM
she solicited the comment with her post . . . now she has courageously blocked me from responding
NP: Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested Tuesday he is considering substituting or rescinding the Online News Act #C18
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Carney suggests he's considering rescinding Online News Act
Mark Carney suggested he is considering substituting or rescinding the Online News Act to ensure local news spreads wider and faster.
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August 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
NP: Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested Tuesday he is considering substituting or rescinding the Online News Act #C18
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Rupert Murdoch's New York Post plans to launch a California Post in LA . . . it will look and feel similar to its NY counterpart, delivering journalism, entertainment and celebrity gossip, sports news, local news and opinion with an edgy voice #newspapers
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New York Post to launch California Post newspaper in LA
Los Angeles is home to the second-largest concentration of Post readers, per News Corp.
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August 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Rupert Murdoch's New York Post plans to launch a California Post in LA . . . it will look and feel similar to its NY counterpart, delivering journalism, entertainment and celebrity gossip, sports news, local news and opinion with an edgy voice #newspapers
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"After a scorched-earth lobbying campaign, the DoJ walked back its own lawsuit blocking a $14 billion tech megamerger pursued by tech giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise just weeks before the case was set to go to trial."
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The Big Tech Lobby Has the DOJ in a Stranglehold
A secret lobbying effort by Hewlett Packard Enterprise has pushed Donald Trump’s Justice Department to reverse course on the tech giant’s $14 billion megamerger and led to the ouster of top department...
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August 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"After a scorched-earth lobbying campaign, the DoJ walked back its own lawsuit blocking a $14 billion tech megamerger pursued by tech giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise just weeks before the case was set to go to trial."
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"The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley"
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The Oligarchs' Coup Against the Free Press Is Happening Now
The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley that includes Jef...
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July 18, 2025 at 1:34 AM
"The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley"
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is making so much money that it has authorized a new US$1 billion Stock Repurchase Program and it intends to accelerate the pace of its buyback
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News Corp Authorizes New $1 Billion Stock Repurchase Program and Intends to Accelerate Pace of Buyback - News Corp
News Corp Authorizes New $1 Billion Stock Repurchase Program and Intends to Accelerate Pace of Buyback Total authorization to increase to $1.3 billion including $303 million remaining under the Compan...
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July 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is making so much money that it has authorized a new US$1 billion Stock Repurchase Program and it intends to accelerate the pace of its buyback
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Straight Arrow News has more than doubled its audience by showing which news stories make the cut, which ones don't and why
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How Straight Arrow News turned radical transparency into rapid audience growth
Derek Mead reveals how he's more than doubled his audience base by showing which news stories make the cut, which ones don't and why
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July 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Straight Arrow News has more than doubled its audience by showing which news stories make the cut, which ones don't and why
www.journalism.co.uk/news/-why-di...
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the Hearst chain has bought the Dallas Morning News for $75 million to add to its dailies in Houston, San Antonio and Austin . . . Hearst bought the Austin American-Statesman for an estimated $70 million in February #newspapers
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Hearst buys the The Dallas Morning News, and 140 years of local ownership ends - Poynter
Deal builds Texas hub for Hearst, shrinks remaining locally focused public newspaper companies to two.
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July 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
the Hearst chain has bought the Dallas Morning News for $75 million to add to its dailies in Houston, San Antonio and Austin . . . Hearst bought the Austin American-Statesman for an estimated $70 million in February #newspapers
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Generative AI assisted in the writing of an article in The Hub today, it notes at the end . . . could that explain this whopper?
"Readers recognize when [media] outlets use their platforms to advance their own self-interests rather than the public interest."
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"Readers recognize when [media] outlets use their platforms to advance their own self-interests rather than the public interest."
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Rudyard Griffiths and Sean Speer: The future of news in Canada: A call for rethinking public subsidies
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July 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Generative AI assisted in the writing of an article in The Hub today, it notes at the end . . . could that explain this whopper?
"Readers recognize when [media] outlets use their platforms to advance their own self-interests rather than the public interest."
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"Readers recognize when [media] outlets use their platforms to advance their own self-interests rather than the public interest."
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Andrew Coyne's list of complaints about our system of federal government adds up to less of a mountain than a series of molehills that fails to support his dire warning that "the very notion of Canadians as a self-governing people is dissolving before our eyes"
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Canadian democracy in ‘advanced disrepair,’ claims Coyne
A long-standing maxim in the newspaper business holds that the longer you spend as a journalist, the more jaded and cynical you become. As a high-profile columnist for national newspapers since 1985, ...
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July 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Andrew Coyne's list of complaints about our system of federal government adds up to less of a mountain than a series of molehills that fails to support his dire warning that "the very notion of Canadians as a self-governing people is dissolving before our eyes"
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The Hub's feature today "It’s time to end the boom-and-bust cycle of Canadian shipbuilding" was made possible by Irving Shipbuilding because of course it was #cdnmedia
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DeepDive: It’s time to end the boom-and-bust cycle of Canadian shipbuilding
How Canada can learn from its proud shipbuilding past to secure its future, diversify its economy, and boost its manufacturing capabilities
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June 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The Hub's feature today "It’s time to end the boom-and-bust cycle of Canadian shipbuilding" was made possible by Irving Shipbuilding because of course it was #cdnmedia
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the Texas chapter of non-profit journalism funder Press Forward will focus its efforts on rural and local news in that state's South-Central area, where news deserts are rampant
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Q&A: Press Forward’s Texas chapter is betting big on rural and local news - Poynter
Jesus Garcia-Gonzalez explains how the San Antonio Area Foundation is building a model to support underserved newsrooms in South-Central Texas
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June 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
the Texas chapter of non-profit journalism funder Press Forward will focus its efforts on rural and local news in that state's South-Central area, where news deserts are rampant
www.poynter.org/business-wor...
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it must be like a dream come true for bank executives to place their own commentaries in our subsidized news media . . . I wonder if RBC or Mr. Stackhouse would care to disclose how much this cost them #cdnmedia
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‘A critical year in Canada’s history’: John Stackhouse and RJ Johnston on the ‘G7 gas club,’ the weaponization of energy, and Canada’s efforts to become an energy superpower
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June 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
it must be like a dream come true for bank executives to place their own commentaries in our subsidized news media . . . I wonder if RBC or Mr. Stackhouse would care to disclose how much this cost them #cdnmedia
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the Halifax Examiner, which practices radical transparency by posting its annual financials online, rebounded to a profit of $32k last year from a loss of $21k in 2023, thanks largely to an increase of $19k in donations #cdnmedia
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Here's the Halifax Examiner's tax return - Halifax Examiner
We hold ourselves to the same standard of public accountability that we expect from other institutions and governments.
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June 5, 2025 at 12:37 AM
the Halifax Examiner, which practices radical transparency by posting its annual financials online, rebounded to a profit of $32k last year from a loss of $21k in 2023, thanks largely to an increase of $19k in donations #cdnmedia
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Four local journalists have joined forces with Unifor and the Union Cooperative Initiative to launch a Save Our Local News campaign aimed at creating a reliable news publication in the Vancouver suburbs of New Westminster, Burnaby and the Tri-Cities #cdnmedia
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Former Unifor members laid off from Glacier Media papers launch their own newspaper co-op
VANCOUVER—Following the closure of Glacier Media’s digital community newspapers in April and May, which affected the jobs of Unifor Local 2000 members, journalists are now banding together to form a w...
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June 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Four local journalists have joined forces with Unifor and the Union Cooperative Initiative to launch a Save Our Local News campaign aimed at creating a reliable news publication in the Vancouver suburbs of New Westminster, Burnaby and the Tri-Cities #cdnmedia
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The Ditch Weekly is a newspaper about Montauk, Long Island that is written and edited by locals ages 13 to 17 (free gift article)
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They’re 15. Wait Until You Read Their Newspaper.
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May 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The Ditch Weekly is a newspaper about Montauk, Long Island that is written and edited by locals ages 13 to 17 (free gift article)
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The Hub's mass emailing today admits that its Deep Dive is sponsored by Financial Planners Canada, yet the article online acknowledges FP Canada . . . is that because it is trying to disguise the source behind this paid content?
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May 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Hub's mass emailing today admits that its Deep Dive is sponsored by Financial Planners Canada, yet the article online acknowledges FP Canada . . . is that because it is trying to disguise the source behind this paid content?
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Bell made a 2024 profit of $10.6 billion, which was more than the GDP of many countries, at a profit margin of 43.3% . . . Rogers made $9.6 billion at a margin of 46.7% . . . but sure, go ahead and bail them out #cdnmedia
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CRTC Urged to Bail Out Bell and Rogers’ Newsrooms: Unifor | iPhone in Canada
Unifor tells the CRTC that Bell and Rogers can't sustain local news without help, urging strong regulation and funding support for Canada's media industry.
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May 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Bell made a 2024 profit of $10.6 billion, which was more than the GDP of many countries, at a profit margin of 43.3% . . . Rogers made $9.6 billion at a margin of 46.7% . . . but sure, go ahead and bail them out #cdnmedia
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a report titled "Universities versus the public" by the conservative Macdonald-Laurier Institute claims that "there’s growing public frustration over the blatant left-wing bias and politicization of our post-secondary institutions" in Canada
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Canada at a Crossroads – Volume 6: Degrees of separation - Universities versus the public | Macdonald-Laurier Institute
In both the United States and Canada increasing numbers of people report limited or no confidence in universities and think they are poorly managed. The public is losing faith in part due to universit...
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May 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
a report titled "Universities versus the public" by the conservative Macdonald-Laurier Institute claims that "there’s growing public frustration over the blatant left-wing bias and politicization of our post-secondary institutions" in Canada
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Conservative media are grasping at straws to claim Liberal bias in news coverage
Right-wing media are getting desperate for any evidence to prove the Tories’ election loss was the result of Liberal media bias #cdnmedia
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Right-wing media are getting desperate for any evidence to prove the Tories’ election loss was the result of Liberal media bias #cdnmedia
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Con media grasping at straws to claim Liberal bias in news coverage
Fresh off what must have been a crushing election loss by their favoured Conservatives, right-wing media are getting desperate in their quest for any evidence that it might have been a result of large...
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May 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Conservative media are grasping at straws to claim Liberal bias in news coverage
Right-wing media are getting desperate for any evidence to prove the Tories’ election loss was the result of Liberal media bias #cdnmedia
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Right-wing media are getting desperate for any evidence to prove the Tories’ election loss was the result of Liberal media bias #cdnmedia
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30 TVA layoffs in its television division bring its total elimination of jobs since 2023 to 650, or half of its workforce #cdnmedia
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Quebecor's TVA Group eliminates 30 positions - Broadcast Dialogue
Quebecor's TVA Group announced Wednesday it is eliminating 30 positions, primarily within its television division.
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May 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM
30 TVA layoffs in its television division bring its total elimination of jobs since 2023 to 650, or half of its workforce #cdnmedia
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a 2017 amendment in Alberta allowed municipalities to place public notices on social media and websites rather than in newspapers . . . publishers say they’ve seen a once stable revenue stream evaporate as a result and 30 community newspapers close
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Advertising bylaws another nail in the coffin for local media, newspaper publishers say
Changes to Alberta’s municipal governance rules have jeopardized a stable source of revenue for newspapers and politicized funding, industry argues
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May 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
a 2017 amendment in Alberta allowed municipalities to place public notices on social media and websites rather than in newspapers . . . publishers say they’ve seen a once stable revenue stream evaporate as a result and 30 community newspapers close
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ouch . . . the Chicago Sun-Times ran a special section on Sunday that licensed content from Hearst's King Features, including a summer reading list created using AI . . . unfortunately, it recommended books that do not exist #newspapers
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Chicago Sun-Times response to May 18 special section
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May 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
ouch . . . the Chicago Sun-Times ran a special section on Sunday that licensed content from Hearst's King Features, including a summer reading list created using AI . . . unfortunately, it recommended books that do not exist #newspapers
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